Spring 2018 ACE registration will open on Saturday, February 10. . Regular registration will continue through 2/15. Starting on 2/16, there will be a $25 late registration fee. Registration closes on 2/18.

The fair will be open to families at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday February 8. This is going to be an amazing event for the whole family. Thank you so much to those of you who have already signed up to help! If you are planning to attend the event, please consider signing up for Parent Patrol!

Poster boards are still available in the office for $5 cash. Please note that the poster label that will go on the back of your student’s poster will be distributed the day of the event, as they bring their posters to the MU.

2018-2019 Kindergarten Registration for accepted students will be held on Thursday, January 25th. Packets will be available in the office beginning Thursday, January 18th. PLEASE BE SURE YOUR KINDERGARTNER HAS BEEN REGISTERED USING THE ONLINE AIR REGISTRATION SYSTEM BEFORE JANUARY 25th. If your kinder student has been previously enrolled in MDUSD because they attended TK, or received district services, such as Speech, you do not need to register them using the AIR Registration system. Details about registering with AIR were sent in your notification letter. If you have any questions, please contact our office.

If you need a Physical Examination form for your Kindergarten student, it is available on the MDUSD website.

We will be selling Candy Grams during lunch recess and after school, Monday, Dec.18th-Thursday, Dec. 21st. Any donations of full-sized candy canes and/or time will be greatly appreciated. For further information, please contact Becky Jordan

The Sequoia Elementary School STEM Fair is fast approaching! The Holiday Break is a great time to start working on your project. Project proposals will be due on Friday, January 26! If you wish to be considered for the District STEM Fair, please see the Mount Diablo School District Guidelines.

Look for a link to the online registration form and information pack in the coming Sequoia eBlast newsletters.

The Pleasant Hill Education Commission is hosting an Hour of Code event in the large community room at City Hall on Friday, December 8 from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm. The event is free and open to all students K-12 in Pleasant Hill. Students can sign up for one, two or three hours of coding. Laptops, donated by the Pleasant Hill Library, will be available to all participants during the event.

The 2018-19 Kindergarten Lottery will be held on Tuesday, December 5 from 11am to 12:15pm. It is open to the public. Observers to the lottery must sign in at the Sequoia Elementary School office and get a ‘Visitor’ sticker, and then proceed to the Library. There is no parking available in the school parking lot. Please park on the street.

This year, we are showing our Red Ribbon Week support by having a school wide poster contest for each grade level. Students can make a Red Ribbon Week poster focusing on this year’s theme: “The Key to Your Future is Making Healthy Choices.” Posters can be submitted between Monday Oct 23-Oct 26 and winners will be announced Monday Oct 30. Posters brought to school will be showcased throughout the school halls. We will display your child’s creative artwork on our school website.

· Use a 8.5 x 11 size paper

· Artwork may include drawings, sketching, and photography as long as the resulting artwork fits onto an 8.5’’x11’ piece of paper.

· Please write your child’s name, teacher’s name and room number on the BACK of the poster

· Must be original work.

· Parents may supervise and encourage students but may not take part in design or production of the work.

· Poster must have the prevention message: “The Key to your Future is Making Healthy Choices.”

· Turn in all posters to your teacher by Oct. 26th.

Winners will be announced during Monday morning announcements on Oct. 30th.

As a result of poor air quality and ongoing wildfires, schools will be closed Thursday, October 12thandFriday, October 13th No school, No Daycare, No Ace Classes. Check the District Website for updates.

4th and 5th Grade Students are you interested in being on the Sequoia Elementary Student council? Well, hurry and look at the attached Information now! It includes information on What the positions are and how to apply for them. They are DUE Wednesday, October 11th to your teacher.

We're trying something new. We have a lost and found link at the SPA website. When you click through, you'll see photos of items recently left on school grounds. If you see an item that belongs to you, come to the MUR to reclaim it.

Send some love and congratulate your child's achievements. Purchase a yearbook pat (pat on back)! This year we are offering pats through our yearbook online system. Note the yearbook vendor calls these "love lines." You'll enjoy the speed convenience the service offers. Pay and submit a message to your student in one step. See the flyer for more details!

Mark your calendars. The Sequoia Book Fair and Movie Night is just around the corner, October 13! The fair is great through its entirety, but especially on opening night. The library buzzes with activity, families enjoy pizza and popcorn, which is on sale at the event, and parents and students socialize in the MUR before the movie begins. This year's movie is SING, a fun movie enjoyable for all ages!

This Saturday, an army of volunteers-- families, students, teachers, staff, high schoolers, and community members, banded together to beautify our school! Led by our generals (thank you Tully, Franke, Reno, and Mims families), we trimmed, weeded, dug holes (Ms. Gascot swung that pickaxe!), planted, hauled new soil, watered, swept, blew debris, and recycled cardboard, plant containers, and plant materials. The only thing we threw away to the landfill was an old garden hose! An advance team moved and organized all the PE equipment to the new container; our Special Ops crew assembly-lined our new STEAM stools together. Many thanks to everyone, including SPA, Republic Services for the dumpster and advice, and the Franke family for obtaining soil and free plants. (Let me know if I missed somebody.)

Get fingerprint scans and complete the TB risk assessment at our Jamboree. No doctor visits needed. Speed your approval and save time and hassle. Get right to work at Sequoia helping make this an amazing Sequoia school year!

We’re adding an evening session to All-In-One Day. We’ll open the MUR doors again at 6pm and close at them 7:30. We have fewer volunteers for this session, so we need to limit the number of registrants. We’ll be able to accommodate 20 families for each half hour we are open.

Please access this form to reserve your spot. When available slots fill up, the option to select will no longer appear in the form.

Hello Sequoia Elementary families! Within the first week of August, the district will be mailing home the Demographic Update form to students' home addresses. (We will not print them out and hand them to you at the office - they must be mailed to you as a double check that you live at the address we have on file.)

Parents/guardians must review the document carefully, adding, deleting, or changing the required information. The form must be signed and dated, and brought to All in One Day (AIOD) and given to the staff in order to receive your student's teacher assignment. Teacher assignments WILL NOT BE GIVEN OUT WITHOUT THIS DOCUMENT.

IF you are unable to attend AIOD, please bring your Demographic Update form to the office before August 17th. We can release your student's teacher assignment to the parent after August 17th.

IF you have moved over the summer, you must bring 2 proofs of your new address to the office once we re-open on August 1st Please see the website for the list of acceptable documents.